In terms of how fast any single rider can circulate the 4.265km EuroSpeedway Lausitz circuit,
Troy Bayliss is the current best lap holder with a time of 1min 37.623secs, fastest in Superpole lapping in 1min 37.923secs and official lap record holder, his time 1min 38.635secs. Despite all these performances coming in his second championship-winning year for Ducati in 2006, Bayliss scored his three Lausitz race wins some time ago, in 2001 and 2002. In terms of recent race wins, three manufacturers have won at EuroSpeedway Lausitz, Honda twice, Ducati and Suzuki have taken one apiece.
Significantly, Toseland is the most recent winner of a Lausitz race, but aside from the aforementioned Bayliss, two other current SBK riders have been victorious at this track. Last year
Yukio Kagayama on the Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra machine scored the first race win, and in 2005, Lorenzo Lanzi on the Ducati Xerox bike secured his first-ever SBK race win. Each of these riders has scored podium finishes this year, but it is Kagayama who has the best recent form in the 2007 season.
Sunday’s 24-lap races will prove if history will been repeated or not, but it may be
significant that no Yamaha rider has ever won at EuroSpeedway Lausitz, and despite a test here earlier in the year, Max Biaggi has never raced at the German circuit before.
Ruben Xaus riding his Sterilgarda Ducati enters the EuroSpeedway Lausitz race with a slim two-point lead over the officially entered 999F07 machine of
Lorenzo Lanzi. Xaus is the only rider outside the top four to have won a race this year, with the current win total reading Toseland 8, Bayliss 5, Haga 3, Biaggi 2, and Xaus 1 at his home round of Valencia in April.
